24 September 2018
Ltd ‘’The Tiriphoni Gardens’’ cultivated an intensive fruit garden within the state project ‘’Proceed to the Future’’ in the village of Kvarkheti, in the Gori Municipality. The Minister of Environment and Agriculture Levan Davitashvili together with State Representative-Governor Giorgi Khojevanishvili, visited the gardens of intensive types and got aware of such ways of caring as mechanic abnodating, the underground cutting of roots, expanding the net against hail. „Newly cultivated gardens in Kvarkheti are clear examples that our politics of development of agriculture are right. We need competitive, modern economies, which will acquire themselves with produced products in the market. The harvest is the best by using of modern technologies in ‘’The Tiriphoni Gardens’’,-said Levan Davitashvili.
‘’The Tiriphoni Gardens’’ was involved in the program in 2015 and got co-funding GEL 100,000 from the government for planting an intensive type apple- garden on 27hct. The company also benefited from the preferential agro credit and GEL 2,000,000 credit was spent on the pillars for protected nets from hail and on setting of irrigation drip system. Total amount of the implemented investment for cultivating of the garden is 4,700,000. They will have apple harvest for the first time this year.
According to the Governor in Shida Kartli,Giorgi Khojevanishvili, international standard of agriculture is one of the main direction which contributes to the growth of the economy in the country, in particular.
It is worth mentioning that ‘’The Tiriphoni Gardens’’ is the first company which within the state program, got the International Primary Production Certificate of ‘’Global Gap’’.
According to 2018,31th July, within the project ‘’Proceed the Future’’, scale of Georgia, cultivating of new fruit gardens on 5,546 hct is funded; The cost of the state funding amounts to GEL 29,304, 613 mln. Cultivating of fruit gardens in Shida Kartli region on 1,674 hct, is funded, among them.
The Agency of Agriculture Projects Management implements ‘’The United AgroProject’’, which is designed for long-term development and its goal is to create an environment that will promote competitiveness, stable growth of high quality products, introduction of International Standards of Food Safety.